Not Forgotten

Remember These?

Published on August 17, 2004 By Anne Alogy In Blogging

Hello Again,

This is a list of things that are either gone, not available in my area, or just somehow being missed by me. Do you remember.....

Phillips 66 stations.....Civil Defense triangles.....Colorful passenger trains of Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, etc......Woolworth's.....Lindy Ballpoint pens.....Wilkinson Sword Blades.....Burger Chef.....Admiral TVs.....Carter's Little Liver Pills.....De Sotos.....Straw Hat Pizza.....Bubble Up soda.....Roller Derby.....Gallenkamp Shoes.....The Saturday Evening Post.....The old Dr. Pepper circular 10-2-4 logo.....Montgomery Ward.....Laura Scudder's Wampum corn chips (the best, ever!).....CompuServe.....Nifty notebooks.....Afro hair-dos.....Crosley automobiles.....IBM Selectric typewriters (the greatest typewriter, ever!).....Western movies.....Small, colorful airlines like PSA & Hughes.....Mood rings.....The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.....Bozo The Clown.....TicketTron.....The Broadway department stores.....Man in the Moon kites.....Manual cash registers with the up-and-down flags (No Sale!).....Pacific Bell.....Licorice Pizza record stores.....Harvey Comics & cartoons.....Gulf service stations.....Weekly radio station Top 40 tune sheets (now a very hot collector's item).....Butter Brickle candy bars.....Burma Shave signs.....Cabooses on freight trains.....Western Auto.....Orange Julius.....50cc motorcycles.....Mission Pak.....Reddy Kilowatt.....Fizzies.....The tire with the child yawning and holding a candle & tire (Cooper?).....J.J. Newberry's.....Push-button automatic transmissions.....Olympia Beer.....The old Bell Telephone logo with the bell.....Wooden phone booths with doors that closed.....Saturday Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.....Live hosts on cartoon shows.....Gaffers & Sattler appliances.....Wooden jig saw puzzles.....Thrifty Drug Stores.....Giant wood radios with more than two bands and automatic turntables inside of them that played 3 speeds.....TV newscasts that actually reported serious news throughout the entire broadcast.....Buildings with bay windows and neon signs.....Bob's Big Boy restaurants.....Gyroscopes.....Cinerama.....Ipana Toothpaste.....The 3-wheeled car (Citeron?).....Gillette Blue Blades.....National Guard Armories.....Nike missles.....Milkmen.....Milk trucks & vans.....Personalized gold lettering on school yearbooks.

As usual, I'm sure I'll think of things I should have listed later on. Hope this brought back pleasant memories.

Thanks for reading. As Always, Anne Alogy

Comments

kingbee

on Aug 17, 2004

Wooden phone booths with doors that closed

or any type of enclosed phone booth dammit

kingbee

on Aug 17, 2004

IBM Selectric typewriters (the greatest typewriter, ever!)

you can't buy em new, of course, but...check a couple goodwill or salvation army stores. ive seen more than a few in the past year. also a good place to find old...i mean 'classic'...computer hardware.

InfoGeek

on Aug 17, 2004

Gas station attendants that checked your oil and cleaned the windshield.

Air that was FREE at gas stations. just drive up, turn the pressure setting and listen for the dings.

IG

InfoGeek

on Aug 17, 2004

Radio Shack "Realistic" AM radios with the antennas that bent as soon as you extended them.

IG

thatoneguyinslc

on Aug 17, 2004

A&W root beer Drive Ins! We have Hires here....but it just ain't the same

KellyW0498

on Aug 17, 2004

I have a picture that I took recently of an old Phillips 66 gas station, actually the pumps with the logo on it, in a real itty bitty town, it is closed now of course. I will have to find it and show you. I love those little towns. It just seems like simpler times. I don't know if it really was but it appears like it.
KellyW

Anne Alogy

on Aug 17, 2004

*King, I'm always seeing those booths in old movies. I guess expense, and drug dealers, dammit, have made enclosed booths a thing of the past. Cell phones may also be having an effect.
I have an IBM Selectric! It's just sitting in an area of my apartment I use for storing things, but it's there if I ever need it. I always loved seeing the ball go back & forth hitting the paper!

*Info, by the time I was old enough to drive, friendly neighborhood gas stations and free air were relics of the past. I've seen movies and of all things, museum pieces of gas pumps that had glass bowls at the top, and you could see the gasolene sloshing around, and get a ding! out of the pump every few seconds. Why did that have to end?
My father tells me that at one time, Radio Shack was the greatest store in the world. Not anymore. I still want one of the robots they used to sell, though.

*thatoneguy, I have memories of going to an A&W stand in the early 80s in Corona. I'm not sure, but it MAY still be there! They had the carport-type parking, skating carhops, and push-button speakers. If I remember right, it was on Magnolia Ave. just as you leave the Home Gardens area of Riverside and enter the East part of Corona, near the freeway junction. I should have included A&W stands on my list! I also should have mentioned Dad's Root Beer, which my father says was the best ever.

*Kelly, I don't mean to overdo it on my father, but he told me that you used to be able to buy cowboy hats with the Phillips 66 logo at the stations. He said they were good quality also. You bring up a good point: Times seem so complicated nowadays. Here in Sunny Southern California, small towns are disappearing faster than ice cubes on a 100º day! Like Brian Wilson wrote: I guess I just wasn't made for these times.

Thank you all. As Always, Anne

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